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THE HEALTH OF BARKING
This sturdy family never misses its Cod Liver Oil or Orange Juice.
Maternity Services.
Midwifery. At the end of the year there were 19 midwives practising in
Barking. Of these 11 were employed in your hospital and the remainder, including
two from the Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses' Home, were engaged
in your district midwifery scheme.
Early in the year the Salvation Army had intimated that they would be unable
to continue supplying district midwives to undertake work in Barking after the
middle of the year. Their midwives were withdrawn at the end of July but to help
us over our difficulties they were able to arrange for two pupil midwives to come
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